USS Pocahontas (ID-3044)

USS Pocahontas (ID-3044)

USS Pocahontas (SP-3044) was a transport ship for the United States Navy during World War I. She was originally the SS Prinzess Irene, a Barbarossa-class ocean liner built in 1899 by AG Vulcan Stettin of Stettin, Germany, for the North German Lloyd line.

At the outset of World War I the ship was interned by the United States and, when that country entered the conflict in 1917, was seized and converted to a troop transport. During the war, she carried 24,573 servicemen to Europe and, following the Armistice in 1918, returned 23,296 servicemen to the United States.

After decommissioning by the U.S. Navy, the ship was turned over to the United States Shipping Board, and sold back to the North German Lloyd line, where she saw mercantile service until broken up in 1932.